METHODISTS' STAND
"IT IS RIGHT TO FIGHT"
"It is right to fight; for it is only by fighting that we can restrain the evil that seems to be spreading like some awful plague across the world. No civilisation, or culture, can survive if it cannot restrain criminality."
These words of the Rev. Leslie Weatherhead were quoted by the Rev. W. Walker, president of the Conference of the Methodist Church of New- Zealand, during his inaugural address at the opening of the Church's annual conference in Wesley 'Church last night, to make clear the Official attitude of the Church towards the present war.
"We look out upon a world torn asunder by strife, and war, and bloodshed. Nations are at death grips with each other," said Mr. Walker.
"The Methodist Church represented in this conference can be neither indifferent nor neutral to the issues involved. Not only is democratic civilisation threatened, but also the Christian religion out of which democracy has come to its birth. In the so-called
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1942, Page 4
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167METHODISTS' STAND Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1942, Page 4
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